Ville Saalo

Ahmed Saadawi: Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013): https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/10/16/ahmed-saadawi-frankenstein-in-baghdad.html

My nine games. I've looked at a few lists by other people, and none have had games this old. 😂 my9games.net/en/share/604... #My9Games

Askartelin tällaisen palvelun Helsingin ja Espoon kaupinkipyörämatkadatan tarkasteluun: zeroone3010.github.io/kaupunkipyor... Kuluvan vuoden dataa ei ole vielä julkaistu, mutta tuolla on kaudet 2024-2025 sekä niiden sää tunneittain. #hsl #kaupunkipyörät #alepafillari #avoindata #Helsinki #Pyöräily 🚲

I just learned that in addition to the already existing Swedish mini-series on Netflix, they're currently making #AnxiousPeople into a movie, with Angelina Jolie playing the bank manager Zara. 😃 #booksky

Fredrik Backman: Anxious People: https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/09/02/fredrik-backman-anxious-people.html

Finished reading HHhH by @atahualpavasari.bsky.social. Enjoyed it -- as much as one can enjoy a recounting of a grim piece of history like this. #booksky

Laurent Binet: HHhH (2010) 📚: https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/08/26/laurent-binet-hhhh.html

Teapot review: https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/08/23/teapot-review.html

City builders: https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/08/07/city-builders.html

Anyone in #booksky read this? Sheds light on how Nvidia seemingly suddenly became the most valuable company on Earth. Still, I couldn't figure out what makes this guy Jensen Huang tick. 🤔

Stephen Witt: The Thinking Machine. Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip (2025) 📚: https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/08/05/stephen-witt-the-thinking-machine.html

Any other fans of Sir Terry here in #booksky?

Re: IndieWeb Carnival roundup: 25 'No way!?' moments: https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/07/29/re-indieweb-carnival-roundup-no.html

Re: I Love me Some Em Dashes, and I Don't Care: https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/07/26/re-i-love-me-some.html

Admirable clarity @science.org

Terry Pratchett: The Truth (2000): https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/07/25/terry-pratchett-the-truth.html

Do you still remember the time without, say, search engines? I really enjoyed the book This Is For Everyone by @timbl.bsky.social, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Here's my review: ville.saalo.moi/2026/07/16/t... 📚 #thisisforeveryone #booksky

Tim Berners-Lee: This Is For Everyone (2025): https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/07/16/tim-bernerslee-this-is-for.html

Re: Re: Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release: https://ville.saalo.moi/2026/07/12/re-re-most-slopcode-projects.html

I have needed some simple PNG editing tools from time to time, so I made this little service: pngtools.xyz There is no backend, editing happens in your browser only. No ads either. Give it a go and let me know if you find it useful! Made with ✨ vibes ✨.

I started with four links, now I've listed ten already. #junited2026

Search that works for you alone feels less like a tool and more like magic. ✨ See for yourself: kagi.com/magic 🪄

It's June, all bloggers junite! ville.saalo.moi/2026/06/08/j... 🌞 #junited2026

One last chat with the creators of #Hacks. 👇🏼

Is AI profitable yet? That's a hard NO -- unless you're Nvidia: isaiprofitable.com 😅

It's nice when @kagi.com just gets you. 😃

Just in case something bad should happen to my open browser tabs, here's a list of resources I use to discover new blogs: ville.saalo.moi/2026/05/24/d... #IndieWeb

Shout-out to Hacks: I didn't even realize how much I had missed the show until I started watching the fifth season! 😊 www.imdb.com/title/tt1181... #hacks

Someone posted a LEGO QR code containing their WiFi credentials online and people argued nobody could possibly know where the network physically was. That sent me down a small WiGLE / wardriving / vibe-coding rabbit hole: ville.saalo.moi/2026/05/09/v...

As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I though it would be a disaster, but It wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.

I made this Bluesky bot to track speeding buses in my neighborhood, using the high frequency positioning API provided by the Helsinki Regional Traffic organization: bsky.app/profile/puks... Here's the full story in my blog: ville.saalo.moi/2026/03/27/b... 🚌

"Kagi reminds me of what search was meant to be: fast, focused, and useful. In an age where every click is monitored and monetized, paying for search might just be the most quietly radical thing you can do." Check out the full piece by @craiggrannell.bsky.social: www.tapsmart.com/features/abo...

Unmasking the Mask Magic, a very nice little case study on open source intelligence: youtu.be/WaeKwNzkMGM #osint

We obsess over writing code faster with AI, while PR queues, unclear requirements, and "what are we even building?" quietly eat all the time. Good read: andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-... by Andrew Murphy.

Ok this is quite a project! New Titanic every day! 😅👌

Did you know that only three of Titanic's four funnels actually carried smoke? One of them was, in fact, used mostly for ventilation instead. I couldn't fit this tidbit into my blog post, but I'm quite happy with the result anyway: ville.saalo.moi/2026/02/10/t... 🚢 #Titanic

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

So true, there are so many nouns to learn. What's wrong with descriptive names?

Wrote a blog post about what I thought software engineering was in the university, vs what it really turned out to be (spoiler: people). Any students of the trade around, do you recognize yourself from this? How about senior devs? ville.saalo.moi/2025/12/11/l... #softwareengineering #compsci 💻

Absolutely brilliant. 💎 "You ever found yourself trying to do something really simple, like show a username on a web page, but you can't because there's too much "architecture"? This one is for you."

Just listened to this one, good stuff! 😃 Esolang books are very rare, but there happens to exist one in Finnish, if you're curious and adventurous enough -- pay what you want, even 0 €: payhip.com/b/Rd4b

The CAPTCHAs at 17track.net are the weirdest. What the actual fuck? I have no idea what's the logic behind these and couldn't solve them. I might be a robot. 😵‍💫 #captcha #ux

Ha, I finally figured out some good use for the @kagi.com search result URL rewrites: when I search for some Java docs, the best matching results are always about Java 8. With a couple of regex rules, no matter which result I click, it takes me to the latest (Java 25) results. 👌

LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful. Read this personal essay by Matt Ranger, Kagi’s head of ML: blog.kagi.com/llms

Someone recently asked me if I use AI at my work. Funnily enough my first reaction was a "no", even though on further thought I use it a lot. Some thoughts: ville.saalo.moi/2025/11/13/u... #ai

😈 My battle with the Scope Creep lasted for 18 sprints and was ultimately shattered by my ambition. Can anyone save this cursed project? scope-creep.xyz/share/candles #theScopeCreep